I am a space planner interested in new modes of scholarship and in design to support visualization and collaborative work with complex data. In particular I want to understand how the future needs of digital humanities and social sciences will differ from those in science and engineering. Much of our work at DEGW has been with university libraries, educators and researchers to understand new demands on learning and workplaces through the integration of user research, strategy and design.

The Humanities Digital Workshop is a DH shop in the college’s computing department that supports a variety of projects, to this point primarily electronic scholarly editions. I’m interested in ways to make these editions fruitful for readers & researchers, & in ways to reveal the data they represent through text-analytic & visualization tools.

Patricia Hswe
Project Manager for NDIIPP Partner Projects
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaignhttp://blog.lis.uiuc.edu/pvw/

I am interested in digital libraries, with special emphasis on metadata issues (creation, standardization, access, semantics, usability); use and users of digital resources; digital collection management and development; and digital project management. Like others in my field, I believe the digital humanities offer scholars at the junior-faculty level many opportunities to do innovative, original research and break from the typically restrictive route to tenure in ways possibly transcending the intellectual gains of the scholarly monograph.

I was managing editor of the Encyclopedia of Chicago and have been involved in a number of other digital publication projects ranging from historical GIS reference works to online exhibits. I’m interested in how the digitization of the cultural record can serve scholarly and public purposes. I am particularly interested in the intersections of developments in digital humanities and digital libraries, and what libraries and archives look like when we ask them not just to support search, but the work of historical inference.

One of the areas of research computing investigation this fall at NU is development and planning for science hubs: services and software for supporting the work of on-line, “virtual organizations” of large scale, multi-university research teams on NSF, NIH or NASA projects. I’m interested in eventually understanding whether the cyberinfrastructure work that is being done for distributed research teams on large-scale science projects will hold any value for the smaller-scale “craft” traditions (and usually, one-off tools) that have often characterized digital humanities efforts.

Howdy! I’m the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital History within Chicago’s History Department, where I’m teaching new methodologies in information sorting and the history of information revolutions since Gutenberg. As a scholar, I’m writing about the history of the infrastructure state in Britain as it reengineered the relationship between state, market, and everyday life.

I’ve been blogging for upwards of five years now, and I’ve used web 2.0 technologies as an activist before using them to connect interdisciplinary scholars interested in the emerging field of Landscape Studies. I’m broadly interesting in text and visual analysis and promoting new strategies for academic publishing using Web 2.0 technologies. I’m excited about meeting other folks and learning! Say hi!

Computer Science faculty with half-time research appointment as Associate Director for Technology in the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia.
Research interests include image processing, dynamic scene analysis, information retrieval and data structuring, e.g., mark-up and databases (oh, and even some Genetic Algorithms on occasion).

Jason Rhody
Senior Program Officer
Office of Digital Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities http://www.neh.gov/odh

Jason Rhody is a Senior Program Officer in the Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Previously, he worked in NEH’s Division of Education Programs in support of the EDSITEment project, which facilitates the use of technology and online humanities resources in the K-12 classroom. Jason received his master’s degree in English from the University of Maryland, and his current PhD research examines new media narrative forms within the framework of literary, media, and game studies. Prior to joining the Endowment, he worked at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), contributing to and advising digital humanities projects while teaching courses in literature and digital media.